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Since the launch of the driverless project six years ago, Google's driverless car has traveled 6.5438+0.6 million kilometers on the road, which is equivalent to a driver with 75 years of driving experience. However, in the past decade, the technology company with the most automobile-related patents was not Google.
SmartUp is legal? Is an online intellectual property platform, which counts the automobile-related patents obtained by technology companies in the past decade. On the whole, since 20 13, there has been a small explosion in automobile-related patents registered by technology companies, and the automobile-related patents of Samsung and Google have doubled.
Samsung leads with 5 10 patents, Google, which is keen on building cars, ranks second with 308 patents, Microsoft unexpectedly owns 222 patents, and Apple, which has recently frequently dug up technical talents, currently owns 83 patents.
Most of Samsung's 5 10 patents are related to batteries. Samsung SDI, founded in 2000? Is a subsidiary of Samsung specializing in battery research and development, and its lithium-ion batteries include BMW i3 and? i8？ Used. At the same time, Audi independently developed electric SUVs? One of the battery suppliers is Samsung SDI.
Samsung, which has strong battery technology, is also a famous "screen factory". Samsung has a patent called "transparent head-up display", which makes the windshield of the vehicle become the external display of the mobile phone. Drivers can know the incoming calls, messages, map navigation and other information at a glance, without looking at the mobile phone or dashboard when driving, just like? Nafudi. An enhanced version of.
(Navdy？ In-vehicle information solution)
In fact, in addition to being a supplier of automotive batteries and display technology, Samsung has also tried to make its own cars. 1994, Samsung introduced a car called Samsung car. Since then, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 has plunged the auto industry into a downturn, and Samsung was forced to sell 70% of its auto-related assets and take over Renault, France.
Unlike Samsung, Google's automobile-related patents are basically "soft". Benedict Evans, an investor in Andreessen Horowitz, made an interesting metaphor: For unmanned driving, the map is real? PageRank. Google, which vigorously develops driverless technology, naturally performs strongly in maps and navigation. Google is ahead of all other technology companies in car navigation-related patents.
In addition to navigation, Google also has advantages in data processing, mainly reflected in unmanned collision avoidance and passing through complex intersections. Mikhail Avady, CEO of SmartUp Legal, predicted that in the next one to two years, Google will surpass Samsung in automobile-related patents.
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In the past ten years, Microsoft registered about 20 automobile-related patents every year, of which 222 patents mainly focused on in-vehicle infotainment systems. Ford's Sync and Sync 2 are both based on Microsoft's in-vehicle system, but consumers complain about its slow operation, complicated interface and delayed feedback. Since then, Sync 3 has switched to the embrace of BlackBerry, which is based on the BlackBerry QNX system.
Apple first entered the automobile market with CarPlay, and its 83 patents mainly focused on the user interface of in-vehicle infotainment system. With Apple's electric car project? Titan? Confirmed, and frequently digging technical talents from Tesla, Apple's automobile-related patents may have a greater growth.